irritated - Story 78446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed the stapler, slamming it down on the desk with unnecessary force. The metal thud echoed in the room. He felt the muscles in his shoulders tighten. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. His roommate, Mark, was perched on the edge of his bed, fiddling with his phone. The top of his journal was slightly tilted.

He knew he was being paranoid, but he couldn't shake the feeling. He forced a smile.

“Hey, Mark. You see my pen anywhere?”

Mark didn't look up, muttering something about the laundry room. His smile became a grimace.

He stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

Emotion: irritated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.86 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion irritated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 irritated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the irritated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the irritated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.370
`S`	0.282
`P`	0.264
`😠`	0.248
`aggravated`	0.233

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.300
`joyful`	-0.211
`joyous`	-0.207
`खोले`	-0.206
`newfound`	-0.205